Waldo Jaquith

@waldoj
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Thought follower. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. Speaks only for self. he/him
PlaceCharlottesville, VA, USA (Monacan land)
Websitehttps://waldo.jaquith.org/
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Show threadWaldo Jaquith4h ago

@mathowie šŸ˜³ OK, well, Iā€™m glad my instinct was that was a tough cut!

What a big help to have an instructor! The ā€œmaking every possible mistakeā€ approach available to me is often demoralizing and sometimes dangerous. That coffee table is strong evidence of the rightness of your approach.

Show threadWaldo Jaquith9h ago
@mathowie I can see how that equipment would help! I donā€™t think Iā€™d attempt a cut like that on my equipmentā€¦but now I want to. :) My chamfers are all with router bits.
Show threadWaldo Jaquith20h ago
@mathowie I've had an 80% finished coffee table for a year now. I can *not* get clean edges to joint the table top properlyā€”there are always gaps. I think I've hit the limit of what I can do on my DeWalt job site table saw, and without owning a jointer. Are you happy with how your top turned out?
Waldo Jaquith20h ago
@mathowie The coffee table looks great! How did you manage that long, tapering profile on the underside of the tabletop? That seems like a tough angle to get on a table saw.
Show threadWaldo Jaquith1d ago
@theory Yup, back to the old extractive, exploitative bullshit.
Waldo Jaquith2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rejectedplates/116262214260251939

Wrong, Phrack is ONā€”they're in the midst of volume 17.

Waldo Jaquith2d ago
Anne Applebaum2d ago
A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Show threadWaldo Jaquith2d ago
@nelson It occurs to me that the only thing that I know about Nevada City is that Utah Phillips lived there, and only that because he talked about it in one of the songs on his collaborative album with Ani DiFranco, "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere.ā€
Show threadWaldo Jaquith2d ago
@zubakskees That's my guess
Waldo Jaquith3d ago

A weird thing about running a bunch of bots is that there are a lot of people who like to reply to bots. At first I was confused (itā€™s a bot, there's not a person there!) but then I realized a) there is a person thereā€”me and b) each bot-post is a conversation prompt, that people might choose to pursue in their replies.

Today I think it's nice. Each bot-post is like a small sunken object in a shallow sea that a little reef might form around, supporting some life, if only for a while.